Stephens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably 471 So. 2d 493 - Ex Parte Faircloth (1985), Smarr v. State (1953)
104 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Blue v. State · American Ry. Express Co. v. Reid · Grammer v. State · Tillison v. State · Cooper v. Slaughter
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the objection to the argument is sustained and when the sinister effect of the argument can be eradicated by action of the trial court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.